3D Printer Surveillance
February 12 2026New York is contemplating a bill that adds surveillance to 3D printers:
New York’s 20262027 executive budget bill (S.9005 / A.10005) includes language that should alarm every maker, educator,...
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iPhone Lockdown Mode Protects Washington Post Reporter
February 6 2026404Media is reporting that the FBI could not access a reporter’s iPhone because it had Lockdown Mode enabled:
The court record shows what devices and data the FBI was...
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Microsoft is Giving the FBI BitLocker Keys
February 3 2026Microsoft gives the FBI the ability to decrypt BitLocker in response to court orders: about twenty times per year. It’s possible for users to store those keys on a device...
Read moreIreland Proposes Giving Police New Digital Surveillance Powers
January 26 2026This is coming: The Irish government is planning to bolster its police’s ability to intercept communications, including encrypted messages, and provide a legal basis for spyware use.
Read moreAI-Powered Surveillance in Schools
January 19 2026It all sounds pretty dystopian:
Inside a white stucco building in Southern California, video cameras compare faces of passersby against a facial recognition database. Behavioral analysis AI reviews the...
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The New York City Wegman’s is collecting biometric information about customers.
Read moreFlock Exposes Its AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras
January 2 2026404 Media has the story:
Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, which are designed to capture license plates as people drive by, Flock’s Condor cameras are pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras designed...
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Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats
December 24 2025This is pretty scary:
Urban VPN Proxy targets conversations across ten AI platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok (xAI), Meta AI.
For each platform, the extension includes...
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Chinese Surveillance and AI
December 16 2025New report: “The Party’s AI: How China’s New AI Systems are Reshaping Human Rights.” From a summary article:
China is already the world’s largest exporter of AI powered...
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Building Trustworthy AI Agents
December 12 2025The promise of personal AI assistants rests on a dangerous assumption: that we can trust systems we haven’t made trustworthy. We can’t. And today’s versions are failing us in...
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